CNN admitted to the Washington Post on Tuesday that it is making an “exception” to the rule against former host Chris Cuomo who is questioning his older brother Andrew, the governor of New York, because of the “extraordinary” early months of the coronavirus pandemic.
“The first months of the pandemic crisis were an extraordinary time,” a network spokesman told media columnist Erik Wemple. “We felt that Chris was talking to his brother about the challenges that millions of American families wrestled with were of great human interest. As a result, we made an exception to a rule that we have been applying since 2013, which Chris refrains from doing. to interview his brother, and the rule remains in force today. CNN discussed the news surrounding Governor Cuomo in detail. “
Wemple, who focuses on cable news, criticized the ruling as an “expression of the problem itself”.
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“You can not nullify a rule if your brother flies from your star anchor high, but only to invoke it during times of scandal. You just can not,” Wemple wrote.
“Now the rule is back, conveniently at a time when the governor is getting a hit because of his mismanagement of this tragedy,” Fox Media’s MediaBuzz presenter Howard Kurtz told America’s Newsroom on Wednesday.
As Elder Cuomo is engulfed in allegations that he condemned the coronavirus deaths of the New York State by federal authorities, some media critics are investigating the ethics of Chris Cuomo’s admittedly inconspicuous “interviews” with his brother last year.
Among them is Wemple, who noted that the younger Cuomo skipped his brother’s news conference on Monday over the growing scandal.
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“Perhaps this should not come as a surprise: Chris Cuomo and Andrew Cuomo are brothers, and journalists cannot discuss their brothers reliably,” Wemple wrote.
Fox News has appeared on CNN several times over the past year, including last week, for an explanation. CNN’s spokesmen did not respond again to comments about his admission to Wemple over the “rule” over Cuomo questioning his brother.
The Cuomos joked about their mother, teased each other and even tackled prop-comedy during the governor’s ten appearances last year on his brother’s show. While they also discussed emergency equipment and serious measures to combat the virus, which the younger Cuomo received and repaired last year, there was nothing wrong with serious journalism.
“I was fascinated by what you did. And, more importantly, I was fascinated by how you did it,” Chris Cuomo told his brother about his work on the pandemic.
Some stores have long criticized the news network for allowing family members to joke airily on the air, but their exchanges have not always received criticism. In fact, entertainment venues were delighted with their interplay; NBC’s TODAY streams over them to give ‘comic relief during a difficult time’.
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The praise does not just come from entertainment media. Margaret Sullivan, liberal media columnist for the Washington Post, called the Cuomos ‘surprisingly addictive’ last April and said one of her “millennial children” would text if their friendly interviews took place. While Sullivan quoted people who noticed the clear conflict of interest, she concluded that it was ‘fairly harmless stuff’.
‘I could see the fraternal chatter between the Cuomo [sic]”All day long,” liberal commentator Ana Navarro tweeted to Biden in April.
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Other network personalities also stream Andrew Cuomo’s work. CNN media correspondent Brian Stelter thanked him for giving people ‘hope but not false hope’, and even said he would tell one of Cuomo’s bromides to endure the hardships of his own children. MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace, a trusted Democratic psychopath, said Cuomo was ‘honest, direct, brave’ and ‘one of the heroes’ fighting the virus.